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Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Assigning Tasks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning ideas. Students can be assessed via items suggested on this reference.
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Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Included here is a study of collaborative learning versus individual learning. This study provides details of its methodology and its findings.
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Georgia State University: Enabling Student Collaboration for Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Presented in a question and answer format, this site provides some useful information about student collaboration. Some of the questions answered are "why should students collaborate" and "how do I get students to collaborate".
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Edutopia: Common Ground: Teaching Kids the Benefits of Working Together

For Teachers K - 1st
Article discusses how cooperative learning helps create the essential skill of working (and compromising) within a group.
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Daily Teaching Tools: Individual Tasks

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides effective time management strategies for cooperative groups. Students will work on time management and an aid to with group engagement. SL.11-12.1c Questions/Part
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Daily Teaching Tools: The Bored Bright Student

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ideas for differentiating lessons. Teaches will learn about the jigsaw method that will help in facilitating enrichment opportunities for students who are bored.
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Quality Digest: Self Directed Work Teams: A Competitive Advantage

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Article describes self-directed work teams as an innovative way to approach employee management. Designed around "whole" projects, these teams manage their own work and handle obstacles themselves, fostering independent thinking and a...
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Daily Teaching Tools: The Slow Student

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an explanation of ways to assist students who need differentiated instruction. This article focuses on ways to assist student who struggle with keeping up with the pace in the classroom.